When is the exhibition on display?

The special exhibition runs from May 8 to November 1, 2026, at the Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel.

Where does the exhibition take place?

At the Museum of Sepulchral Culture, Weinbergstraße 25-27, 34117 Kassel.

How much is the admission fee?

The regular museum admission is 8 Euro, reduced 5 Euro.

What is the exhibition about?

The presentation highlights the relationship between humans and animals in life and death and questions farewell, grief, and remembrance.

Are there educational offerings?

The museum offers guided tours, online tours, and other museum educational formats. Specific dates will follow depending on the program.

Is the museum wheelchair accessible?

The museum provides information about visiting and accessibility on its website. For current details, it is advisable to check the visitor information before the visit.

Where to Put the Dog? Touching exhibition about farewell, animal love, and remembrance

Name: Where to Put the Dog?
Start: 2026-05-08T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-11-01T01:00:00+01:00
Location: Museum für Sepulkralkultur

Where to Put the Dog? – an exhibition about farewell, attachment, and the quiet forms of remembrance

At the Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel, a special exhibition entitled Where to Put the Dog? opens, focusing on a deeply human theme: the relationship between humans and animals in life and death. The presentation runs as part of the Update 4.0 of the permanent exhibition in between. You, life, and finitude and combines contemporary mediation with a sensitive examination of grief, care, and farewell.

An art experience between empathy and finitude

The exhibition unfolds its impact not through spectacular loudness, but through quiet concentration. Multimedia insights, narrative stations, and the opportunity to contribute personal thoughts create an exhibition atmosphere that invites reflection. For art and culture interested visitors, it creates a space for aesthetic experience, where memory, ritual, and emotional attachment are newly questioned.

Museum Education, Research, and Cultural Education

The Museum of Sepulchral Culture has stood for scientifically grounded mediation around dying, burial, grief, and commemoration for years. This special exhibition is also embedded in a larger context: it opens questions about forms of farewell, familiar environments in the last phases of life, and the ways societies deal with loss. In this way, the exhibition connects art history, cultural studies, and museum education in a manner that does not teach, but touches.

A look at humans, animals, and culture of remembrance

The relationship with animal companions particularly shows how closely everyday culture and culture of remembrance are intertwined. In the examination of works in this exhibition, it becomes evident that sepulchral culture is much more than a topic of death: it also tells of affection, responsibility, and the need for dignity. The presentation thus organically fits into the thematic orientation of the institution, which occupies a special place in the German museum landscape with its permanent exhibition and research work.

Visit, timeframe, and recommendation

Where to Put the Dog? can be seen from May 8 to November 1, 2026. Those interested in exhibitions with depth, cultural education, and a quiet, contemplative form of art experience will find a worthwhile reason to visit here. This exhibition invites one to pause, take a closer look, and rediscover one's attitude towards farewell and memory. A visit to the Museum of Sepulchral Culture is particularly worthwhile right now.